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Absent Parties and Bloody-Minded Judges

Absent Parties and Bloody-Minded Judges

Ernest Metzger

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Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206551.003.0025

This chapter uses the provisions of chapter 84 of the Lex Irnitana and other texts to argue that what may at first sight appear simply to be requirements that the judge should adjourn proceedings in particular circumstances are better seen as a mechanism for ensuring that the parties' right to a fair trial is observed.

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